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Repicturing the Second World War Representations i (ISBN 9780230002579) offers a compelling reexamination of how the Second World War has been imagined, portrayed, and repurposed across different media and cultural contexts. The work engages with a long arc of memory, myth, and critique, challenging conventional narratives and inviting readers to reconsider who tells the story and why it matters.

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This volume traces the shifting landscapes of wartime representation, from public commemorations to fictional reimaginings, and analyzes how images, texts, and films reshape public understanding of sacrifice, heroism, and culpability. Through close readings and cross-disciplinary methods, it reveals the tensions between collective memory and individual testimony, showing how cultural producers negotiate silence, memory gaps, and moral ambiguity. The book situates these representations within broader political and cultural movements, offering a nuanced map of how the Second World War persists in contemporary discourse.

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Michael Paris, a distinguished scholar renowned for his work in modern history and memory studies, synthesizes archival rigor with insightful cultural analysis. His scholarship spans postwar memory, visual culture, and narrative form, making him a leading voice in understanding how large-scale historical events are interpreted across societies. The volume reflects his long-standing commitment to uncovering the complexities of historical representation and his ability to fuse theoretical precision with accessible, thought-provoking prose.

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Repicturing the Second World War Representations i illuminates the evolving languages of memory and demonstrates how representations shape, challenge, and extend our understanding of a defining global conflict.

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Repicturing the Second World War Representations i (ISBN 9780230002579) offers a compelling reexamination of how the Second World War has been imagined, portrayed, and repurposed across different media and cultural contexts. The work engages with a long arc of memory, myth, and critique, challenging conventional narratives and inviting readers to reconsider who tells the story and why it matters.

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This volume traces the shifting landscapes of wartime representation, from public commemorations to fictional reimaginings, and analyzes how images, texts, and films reshape public understanding of sacrifice, heroism, and culpability. Through close readings and cross-disciplinary methods, it reveals the tensions between collective memory and individual testimony, showing how cultural producers negotiate silence, memory gaps, and moral ambiguity. The book situates these representations within broader political and cultural movements, offering a nuanced map of how the Second World War persists in contemporary discourse.

About the author

Michael Paris, a distinguished scholar renowned for his work in modern history and memory studies, synthesizes archival rigor with insightful cultural analysis. His scholarship spans postwar memory, visual culture, and narrative form, making him a leading voice in understanding how large-scale historical events are interpreted across societies. The volume reflects his long-standing commitment to uncovering the complexities of historical representation and his ability to fuse theoretical precision with accessible, thought-provoking prose.

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Repicturing the Second World War Representations i illuminates the evolving languages of memory and demonstrates how representations shape, challenge, and extend our understanding of a defining global conflict.

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EAN (ISBN-13): 9780230002579
ISBN (ISBN-10): 0230002579
Hardcover
Publishing year: 2008
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
235 Pages
Weight: 0,390 kg
Language: eng/Englisch

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ISBN/EAN: 9780230002579

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0-230-00257-9, 978-0-230-00257-9
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Book author: paris, macmillan
Book title: representations, the second world war, representation, film television, paris, second nature, world war 1914 1918

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Author: Michael Paris
Title: Repicturing the Second World War - Representations in Film and Television
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Palgrave Macmillan UK
235 Pages
Publishing year: 2007-11-21
London; GB
Language: English
106,99 € (DE)
109,99 € (AT)
118,00 CHF (CH)
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BB; Hardcover, Softcover / Soziologie/Sonstiges; Soziologie; Verstehen; 1989; Adolf Hitler; film; history; television; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR); Sociology of Culture; Film and TV History; Film and Television Studies; Social History; History of World War II and the Holocaust; Kulturwissenschaften; Filmgeschichte, Filmtheorie und Filmkritik; Darstellende Künste; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte; Zweiter Weltkrieg; Auseinandersetzen; EA; BC; EA

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Film, Television and the Second World War: The First Fifty Years; M.Paris 'Rose-tinted Blighty': Gender and Genre in Land Girls ; W.Webster Policing the People's War: Foyle's War and British Television Drama; J.Chapman An Autobiographical Allegory: Franco Zeffirelli's Tea with Mussolini ; R.W.Matson Soccer with the Dead: Mediterraneo , the legacy of Neorealism and the Myth of the 'Italiani Brava Gente'; S.Giovacchini Safe Conduct (2002): A Tribute to the French Film Industry During the Second World War; D.Afoumado Aimee, Jaguar, and Sophie Scholl : Women on the German Home Front; H.Jones 'This Film is Based on a True Story': The Tuskegee Airmen ; S.P.Mackenzie 'What Happened Was Wrong': Come See the Paradise and the Japanese-American Experience in the Second World War; M.Paris Commissioning Mass Murder: Conspiracy and History at the Wannsee Conference; S.Gigliotti Laughing Against Horror: Life is Beautiful and Train of Life ; P.Sorlin Enemy at the Gates as a 'Soviet' War Film; D.J.Youngblood Bomber Harris : Raking Through the Ashes of the Strategic Air Campaign; M.Connelly Realism, Historical Truth and the War Film: The case of Saving Private Ryan ; T.Haggith Downfall and Other Endings: German Film and Hitler's War after Sixty Years; T.Barta Notes and References Index

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